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Associate Professor Joshua Aston

Associate Dean (Law)

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 5343
Email: j.aston@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.316  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7850-081X

Dr Joshua N Aston is the Associate Dean (Law) and a member of the Executive in the School of Business and Law.

Key Research Areas

  • International Human Rights Law
  • Law of Contract
  • Cyber Laws

Biography

Associate Professor Joshua N. Aston has served as the former Dean (SW) and Assistant Professor of Law at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Additionally, he was also the Officer on Special Duty to the Vice-Chancellor of the University.

He obtained his PhD from Symbiosis International University, India and Masters in International Criminal Law from University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

He has presented papers and delivered keynote addresses at various international and national conferences and seminars. He participated in the Asia - Pacific Law Deans Forum organized by the International Association of Law Schools and the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Sha Tin, Hong Kong in 2016.

His areas of interests are International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Law of Contracts to name a few. He is the author of the acclaimed text ‘Trafficking of Women and Children, Article 7 of the Rome Statute’. He has also authored books on ‘Contract Law for Managers’ and ‘Acing Internships’ to name a few.

His educational background in the area of International Criminal Law has given him a broad base from which he branches into specific areas within the International Criminal Law by analysing the impact of actions of States at the National level and how this impacts in the International sphere. His focus has remained however on human rights violation, which is very topical for modern civil society. This interest has spurred him to work on Modern Slavery issues where he is publishing profoundly. Through his work in the areas of human rights and international criminal law, he is continuously challenging the status quo and his academic writing is compelling and posits the need to change situations for a better and humane world.

He is a member of various academic committees and bodies at the University as well as other Universities and Institutes where he actively participates and advises on various academic and legal issues.

Professional associations
  • Evaluation, Assistance, and Certification Committee of the International Association of Law Schools, Member
  • Council of Australian Law Deans, Member
  • Law Associate Dean Research Network, Member
  • Law Access Ltd Stakeholder Advisory Committee, Western Australia, Member
  • Australasian Law Academics Association, Member
  • Law Society, Western Australia, Member
  • Francis Burt Law Education Programme and Old Court House Law Advisory Committee, Member
  • Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa, Member
  • Editorial Board, All India Law Teachers Congress, Member
  • BPHE Society's Ahmednagar College, Center for Studies in Rural Development, Institute of Social Work and Research and Institute of Management Studies, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Trustee and Member of the Governing Council
  • Indian Institute of Advanced Research, UIAR, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Board of Studies, Faculty of Liberal Studies, Member

Other Scholarly Publications

  • Aston J. (2020), Higher Studies in Law, Lucknow, Eastern Book Company.
  • Aston, J. (2018) Acing Internships. New Delhi, Eastern Book Company.
  • Aston, J. (2017). Contract Law for Managers. Lucknow, Eastern Book Company.
  • Aston, J. (2017). MCQ’s on Law of Contract. Lucknow, Eastern Book Company.
  • Aston, J. (ed.) (2016). Identifying and Comparing the Trends in International Contract Laws and Probing the Critical Issues for Multinational Contracting Parties. New Delhi, Eastern Book Company.
  • Aston, J. (ed.) (2015) International Contracts, Jurisdictional Issues, and the Global Commercial and Investment Governance (A Collection of Essays on Recent Trends). Gandhinagar, Gujarat National Law University.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy (Faculty of Law), India, 2014.
  • Master of Laws, England, 2008.
  • Bachelor of Laws, India, 2007.

Research Outputs

2020

Books

Book Chapters

  • Prasad, K., Aston, J. (2020). Transformative constitutionalism and basic rights: a comparative analysis of the Indian and Australian constitutions. Comparative Reflections on the Constitutional Models of India and Australia (3.1 -3.3). Bloomsbury.

Journal Articles

  • Wen, J., Klarin, A., Goh, E., Aston, J. (2020). A systematic review of the sex trafficking-related literature: Lessons for tourism and hospitality research. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 45(December 2020), 370-376. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.06.001.
  • Wen, J., Aston, J., Liu, X., Ying, T. (2020). Effects of misleading media coverage on public health crisis: A case of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in China. Anatolia: an international journal of tourism and hospitality research, 31(2), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2020.1730621.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Yu, C., Wen, J., Goh, E., Aston, J. (2019). “Please help me die”: applying self-determination theory to understand suicide travel. Anatolia: an international journal of tourism and hospitality research, 30(3), 450-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/13032917.2019.1642923.

2017

Book Chapters

  • Aston, J. (2017). Policing in India, Politicization of the Indian Police System and Safeguarding the Human Rights. Terrorism, Its Legal Framework and Beyond (241-262). Manakin Press.

Journal Articles

  • Aston, J. (2017). A Critical Analysis of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings: Success and Failure in Protecting Human Rights of the Victims. International Research Journal of Human resources and Social Sciences, 4(12), 28-41.

2016

Books

  • Aston, J. (2016). Trafficking of Women and Children: Article 7 of the Rome Statute. Oxford University Press.

2015

Book Chapters

  • Aston, J. (2015). Violence against Women and Gender Justice: A Human Rights Perspective. Women Violence and Law: An Intimate Interrogation Open Distance Paradigm (99-115). Netaji Subhas Open University.

Research Projects

  • Law & Policy, Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2019 ‑ 2021, $362,057.

Research Student Supervision

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